Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil’s Georgics

Abstract

This collected volume has two objectives: first, to offer thoughtful, new readings of Virgil’s Georgics which reflect the major scholarly concerns and activities of Virgilian studies since the turn of the twenty-first century; and second, to present innovative and underutilized perspectives – approaches, interpretive methods, and ways of seeing the Georgics – which in turn will lead to further explorations of the poem. The essays in this volume demonstrate that the enduring appeal of the Georgics derives from the breadth of Virgil’s intellectual activity, the richness and depth of the poem’s engagement with its creative environment, and the myriad ways in which the poem is reflected in the works of others. By identifying and building on emergent trends in recent Classical scholarship, this collection of essays significantly augments our understanding of what the Georgics says about its subject matter, its medium, its time, and its legacy. As we illustrate throughout this volume, the Georgics actively invites reflections on the relationship between reader and addressee, content and meaning, message and medium, idealism and reality. Indeed, we take the view that the poem’s exploration of these relationships lies at the heart of its inexhaustible interpretive possibilities. The volume also opens up exciting new research avenues for the study of the reception of the Georgics by highlighting the numerous ways in which the poem has been understood by ancient readers, early modern poets, explorers of the ‘New World’, and female translators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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